Akashi

The Akashi clan were a feudal Japanese samurai clan from the Mimasaka Province part of the Chugoku region in western Honshu. Morishige Akashi was a vassal of Hideie Ukita's Ukita clan of Chugoku and were loyal to the Toyotomi during the Sekigahara Campaign of 1600. In 1615 they were defeated in the Siege of Osaka.